I consider myself pretty conversant in metric units. I know that 20 kilograms is 44 pounds (double it and add 10%) and that five kilometers is a little over three miles (I’ve, uh, run a lot of 5Ks).

Students often struggle with temperature conversions in science courses due to time constraints. A simplified approximation method offers a solution by using basic arithmetic: double Celsius and add ...

Every once in a while, you may see a temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Your car thermometer may revert to the wrong system and you don’t know how to change it, for example. Since almost ...

Travel expert Rick Steves shares a simple trick to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, which is accurate enough for tourists to ...

Two temperature scales, centigrade and Fahrenheit, are in common use in meteorology. Most nations use the centigrade scale, but Fahrenheit remains in use in the United States. The boiling point of ...

If you live in one of the few countries that use the Fahrenheit temperature scale (that would be the United States, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Liberia, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia ...

The Kelvin (K), named after British physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), is the thermodynamic temperature unit in the International System of Units (SI). It is derived from the third law of ...

Converting temperatures from Celsius to Kelvin is important both in everyday situations and in science. The Celsius scale is commonly used and is based on the freezing point (0°C) and boiling point ...